16x9 image on mini-DV becomes 720x480 when imported to FCE...?

I've looked under FCE settings and preferences, but still haven't figured out why it's not importing the 16x9 image as is...?
Craig

Hi -
You need to use the Easy Set Up with the Anamorphic option.
Change your easy set up, re-capture your footage, open a new sequence and you should be good to go.
iMove looks at the embedded code for the Anamorphic flag, FCE in this iteration does not and you have to tell it you are working with Anamorphic footage.
MtD

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> I maintain a site for a photographer and as he added
more images the
> SWF got to be very large, so I split up the site and
used a main page
> to import the smaller SWF files into a target. However,
I found that
> all my clean crisp images become dull when imported but
still look
> sharp in the SWF itself. I tied to find all the JPEG
settings and
> push them up but still with no luck. Does anybody have
any insight to
> why this is happening?
>

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